Senior Clinical Psychologist

Senior Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 02 March 2026

We have an exciting opportunity to join Sheffield Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in the Stroke Clinical Psychology services based in Rotherham. This is an AfC 8a role for 0.4 wte (15 hours per week), but there may be opportunity for temporary additional hours for interested candidates.

You will be joining a well established, valued service, working within a multidisciplinary team in providing high quality, evidence‑based care to stroke survivors across the care pathway (from inpatient on the Stroke Recovery Unit to Community). This role will be varied and dynamic, supporting development of the range of Clinical Psychologist skills as well as specialist stroke skills and knowledge.

This post offers great opportunities for working with other professionals within Rotherham and the wider region, including inputting into national and regional working groups. As part of the Clinical Health Psychology team you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership both locally and regionally.

Working with other Clinical Psychologists in stroke services will provide great opportunities for support, supervision and leadership. We support training and development and there may be opportunities in postgraduate clinical neuropsychology training, and other relevant areas.

• To provide a Clinical Psychology service to stroke survivors and their families in a range of settings (inpatient, community inpatient rehabilitation units, homes or other community settings) requiring frequent travel and to work collaboratively with the stroke MDT in the delivery of a stepped model of care for both cognitive and emotional difficulties post stroke, involving significant role in consultation, advice, training and supervision.
• To offer supervision to other roles (including Trainee Clinical Psychologists) appropriate to banding.
• To lead on different service development projects and developments, including work in the pathway towards around the new National Stroke Service mode.

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Rotherham Stroke Service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the persons care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.

To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems, which might occur following stroke, e.g. depression, anxiety, PTSD, emotional lability and/or cognitive difficulties.

To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To provide highly…